Month: March 2014

I love my family. From my wife and three teenaged kids to my mum, sister and her two small children who I don't see as often, I love them all. They are all incredibly important to me and make me happy simply by being around. Many of us are taught about family values from a …

I was looking at a discussion between a group of Christians brought about by the bringing into law of same-sex marriage in England and Wales today. Some were unhappy about the change in the law, others not so. It came to a point, though, when the argument turned into something a little like this, "Maybe …

For centuries the Church has been a patriarchy. Men have ruled the roost in Church and in the home thanks to certain interpretations of scripture which seem to suggest that we should be the ones with all the authority. Thankfully, this view is increasingly breaking down in light of more contextual readings of the verses …

For centuries the Church has been a patriarchy. Men have ruled the roost in Church and in the home thanks to certain interpretations of scripture which seem to suggest that we should be the ones with all the authority. Thankfully, this view is increasingly breaking down in light of more contextual readings of the verses …

I got into a bit of an argument online recently (I wrote a bit about it earlier). I objected to an MP verbally abusing someone and it didn't go down too well. Two or three others, also Christians, came to my defence over the matter. All of my comments (I think) and theirs were reasonable, …

Well, I'm half way there now. This is post 20 out of 40 at lent and the start of the third of four Gospels. I'll be honest with you, it's a bit difficult to know what to write about with this. I mean, I've written about the nativity story once already and Jesus' baptism twice, …

Desmond Tutu recently wrote this piece in the Guardian about forgiveness. As a man who grew up witnessing his father abusing his mother, who explains the story of putting his father off of a conversation until the following day only to find that he died overnight, ans who lived through the brutal Apartheid regime in …